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Steven Noble

Reader in Mathematics

About me

I obtained my first degree in mathematics in 1993 from the University of Oxford, where I was a member of New College. I was fortunate enough to be able to continue studying in Oxford for a DPhil, completed in 1997, on the Complexity of Graph Polynomials under the supervision of Dominic Welsh and which I completed in 1997. Between 1996 and 1998, I had part-time teaching appointments in Oxford at New College and then at Merton, covering for faculty who were on sabbatical. In October 1998 I was appointed as a lecturer at Brunel University and promoted to senior lecturer in 2010. From summer 2012 to summer 2015, I was head of department of mathematics at Brunel. During my time at Brunel I was admissions tutor and level one co-ordinator for several years.

Research

My research is in combinatorics, particularly graph polynomials, which is a very broad area of mathematics with many beautiful problems still to be solved. I have also been interested in computational complexity and the frequency assignment problem. More recently I have worked on delta-matroids.

More information on my research includes details of all my papers with a brief guide to what they contain and sometimes how I came to study the problems. If you are interested in finding out more about my research, then this would be a good place to look.